The tools which we create and make accessible define our culture and society. With the addition of new technologies like Large Language Models, many of the same unproductive arguments continue to be repeated. This post serves as an anchor to present my rationale for acceptance of different tools and avoidance or dismissal of others. A tool is defined by its uses, of which there are typically many. A spoon may be useful for eating soup, but it is also adequate for digging a hole in dirt. These...
